President Obama’s Long-Form Birth Certificate

April 27, 2011

The White House released the President’s long-form birth certificate this morning. Writing on whitehouse.gov, Dan Pfeiffer, White House communications director, said:

When any citizen born in Hawaii requests their birth certificate, they receive exactly what the President received. In fact, the document posted on the campaign website is what Hawaiians use to get a driver’s license from the state and the document recognized by the Federal Government and the courts for all legal purposes. That’s because it is the birth certificate. This is not and should not be an open question.

The President believed the distraction over his birth certificate wasn’t good for the country. It may have been good politics and good TV, but it was bad for the American people and distracting from the many challenges we face as a country.

You can read the full post and view the birth certificate on whitehouse.gov.